Safety bank booth structure



Dec. 15, 1931. w s KRONAWERT 1,836,670

SAFETY BANK BOOTH STRUCTURE Filed Oct. 17, 1929 gm wanton Patented Dec. 15, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WINFIELD S. KRONAWEB-T, F BUTTE, MONTANA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-THIRD TO JOHN G. ADAMS AND PETER P. ADAMS, BOTH OF SYLVAN LAKE, ALBERTA, CANADA SAFETY BANK BOOTH STRUCTURE Application filed October 17, 1929.

This invention relates to a safety construction for banks or other places or institutions having booths from which money or valuables are passed from a teller to a customer or vice versa.

It is primarily aimed to provide a construction wherein the teller cannot be seen and is protected from any line of firing of firearms.

1 Another object is to provide a novel construction wherein the teller and his actions may be observed only by reflection and wherein the money or valuables are transferred from teller to customer or vice versa by means of movable drawers or trays.

The more specific objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustratin an operative embodiment, and wherein igure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a bank taken on a plane through the customers space in front of the tellers booth and looking toward the latter,

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view through the bank,

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view through the bank taken on the line 3-3 of Fi ure 1,

igure 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line et4 of Figure 2, and

Figure 5 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 55 of Figure 2.

Referring specifically to the drawings, one or more tellers booths are shown at 10 and are representative of booths such as are employed in banks or other institutions where money or valuables are handled over a countor and the teller is constantly subject to a hold-up or other attacks by criminals. In front of the booth 10 an imperforate opaque wall 11 is provided which is broken at counter spaces 12, only where inwardly extending shield walls 13 defining the size of the booth 10 are provided. Walls 13 are of considerable height and are closed at the top by horizontal walls 14. Inset from the walls 11 and in the counter spaces 12 are iron gratings or grilles 15. In front of such gratings or grilles 15, counters 16, at the proper Serial N 0. 400,331.

height, are provided which counters have openings 17 therein.

The walls 13 have openings 18 therethrough and drawers 19 are slidable through the openings 18 and their open tops are 5 adapted to register with the openings 17. Such drawers 19 have ribs 20 thereon slidably mounted in grooved rails 21, passing through the walls 13 and 11, as shown. 1

It will thus be seen that when the drawers d are in the position shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4, the depositor or customer may deposit his bank book, commercial papers, money or the like into the drawer, after which the teller may engage one of the knobs 22 on the drawer e5 and move the same along the rails 21 into the appropriate space 10,where the contents of the drawer are removed and the teller afterwards returns the bank book, money or valuables into the drawer, and pushes the same 70. back to the positions shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4 from which the customer may remove the contents.

The walls 13 are opaque like the walls 11 and are also imperforate. While the tellers cannot be seen and are out of the line of pistol shots, their reflection may be viewed by customers in mirrors 23 arranged in line with but wider than the counter spaces 12.

The bank of course may be arranged in any so desired manner for instance the ofi'ice for the officials may be arranged to the left of the tellers booths as shown at 24.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention A device of the class described comprising a wall, a pair of parallel walls in spaced relation extending at an angle to the first wall, a counter spanning the second mentioned walls and located inwardly of the first mentioned wall, said counter having an opening therethrough, guides below the counter, the second mentioned walls having openings therethrough adjacent the guides, a drawer operable along said guides and through said open? ings, whereby the drawer may be drawn into the space bounded by either of said second mentioned walls, said drawer in normal po- 00 sition having its space in registry with the first mentioned opening and serving to close the openings in the second mentioned walls, and said first mentioned Wall having an opening therethrough permitting access to the counter and drawer.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WINFIELD S. KRONAWERT. 

